Thank you for the input. For now we are just using PHP to create symbolic
links to the video files and the links are removed when they are done
viewing the video. We are open to other suggest still, but for now, this
fills our needs and bypasses putting so much stress on PHP as to put
hundreds of mb of files through it.
Why secure? A combination of all those reason.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Rory Browne wrote:
I've seen this problem many times before, but I'm not sure what solution was
found.
Possible solutions:
Encrypt the file, make it publicly available, and then give the right people
the encryption key.
Put it behind a .htaccess file allowing only the IP of the correct person -
remove the .htaccess entry after a certain lengh of time.
Why are the videos secure? Copyright? Privacy? Bandwidth?
On 2/13/06, Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an application that delivers files to the client browser. These
files a very large video files. 250mb+ each. I have two options: 1) I
could have PHP deliver the file with "fread", or 2) I could have PHP
present a link to the file. However, for security purposes, I would
rather not have the actual files available. I suppose I could have PHP
create temporary symbolic links on the file system that link to the files
in question and then remove the links, thus requiring the users to go
through an authentication process to retrieve files that are assigned to
them.
Anyway, downloading such large files causes PHP to balk with size
limitation errors. I could increase the size limit and memory limit
settings in "php.ini", but for file sizes that large, is it recommended?
Are there "best practice" limits on these settings: max_input_time,
memory_limit, max_execution_time, etc.?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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